All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Remember Jack Nicholson as the blocked novelist Jack Torrance, holed up for the winter as caretaker of the snowed-in Overlook Hotel, scene of countless ghastly murders? Remember Danny Lloyd as Danny “Doc” Torrance, the boy who sees the dead? Spine-tinglingly filmed by Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King’s Gothic masterpiece reveals its lyric potential in a recent adaptation to opera by Paul Moravec (music) and Mark Campbell (libretto). —Matthew Gurewitsch